Chapter 1613 — A Young Hero Unrivalled in All the World
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The Second Young Master, contending with the Dao Chains, shook the twin lotus; a lotus leaf flew out, overtook Shen Mu and his companion, and lightly clung to the thickness-less God-Treasury Domain.
The lotus leaf withdrew, flying back toward the Second Young Master, and the God-Treasury Domain upon it flew back with it.
Behind Madam Yuanmu's head thirty-six heavenly palaces appeared, and she said in a stern voice: "Lord Mu, lend me your treasure halls!"
In her heavenly court the number of treasure halls was not great—only twenty-nine. At her words the fifty-eight halls behind Shen Mu's head flew out and settled into her heavenly court.
Shen Mu roused the Taishu Heavenly Palace, and at once those fifty-eight halls and her twenty-nine joined into one; many of the halls overlapped, but the total came to as many as sixty-seven.
Madam Yuanmu's cultivation and mana surged; palm after palm she struck that lotus leaf, driving it back.
Shen Mu once more roused the Zaiji Void and went howling far away.
They drew closer and closer to the twin lotus of the seventeenth epoch. Upon the lotus leaf beneath the flower, the corpse-bones of the Divine King Boyang could now be seen clearly.
Just then strand after strand of white hair came flying; swish, swish, swish, they wrapped themselves about that twin lotus, and dragged twin lotus and leaf together backward.
The bones of the Divine King Boyang swayed and toppled into the Sea of Chaos, which swiftly dissolved them into nothing.
"That is my lotus!"
Madam Yuanmu soared into the air and clutched the lotus stem; her body grew larger and larger, and with a shout she tore the twin lotus up by the roots.
She nearly fell into the Sea of Chaos; the next moment Shen Mu's God-Treasury Domain spread beneath her feet, and Madam Yuanmu landed upon the Ancestral Court. She brandished the twin lotus, shook off the white hairs, and the twin lotus spun and bloomed at furious speed, driving behind Shen Mu.
Behind Shen Mu, the Second Young Master's palm came thrusting through the mist of chaos; five Dao Chains were coiled about her five fingers, swiftly stripping her palm to stark white bone—yet the power of this blow was still beyond measure.
Yuanmu screamed; all her strength poured into the twin lotus; and beneath the World Tree Shen Mu's body swelled and swelled as he tore the World Tree up by the roots and met the Second Young Master's palm.
Boom!
In that collision the two bodies burst apart again and again—burst, and at once were restored, and burst once more, until even their primal spirits were smashed to utter nothing.
Thankfully Shen Mu's Undying Divine Art erupted, and they snatched back their lives after all, holding off this blow of the Second Young Master's.
The Second Young Master reached out her palm again, but the five Dao Chains bound her tighter and tighter, dragging her into the Sea of Chaos.
She gave a roar of unwilling fury and sank into the Sea of Chaos.
"Old Seven, if I break free, I will come looking for you!"
Shen Mu set the World Tree upright and planted it down hard; its root tendrils danced and drove into his spirit-fetus Ancestral Court.
Madam Yuanmu likewise planted the twin lotus into the Sea of Chaos. The two were covered in wounds from head to foot, yet they looked at each other and smiled, rose into the air, and flew toward the upper reaches of Guixu.
The tide of Guixu erupted, making them faster and faster. Their hearts were light; the mouth of the Guixu abyss drew nearer and nearer.
They came to the flower chamber of the twin lotus. Within the chamber all was tranquil; stamen after stamen danced in the tide.
Shen Mu stood at the edge of the flower chamber and looked down. The tide's streams of light were fierce; the Sea of Chaos below still made his heart quail.
"We have escaped with our lives after all. Little lover, without you, I truly would not know what to do."